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Revealed: the glyphosate research the GM soy lobby doesn't want you to read
Claire Robinson
24th November, 2010
Andres Carrasco's research linking a controversial herbicide with birth defects highlighted the potential health dangers posed by GM crop-spraying in Argentina – and led to violence and intimidation for those behind the study more...
Green business: Lush
Eifion Rees
17th November, 2010
Cosmetics company Lush is a zero-packaging pioneer on the high street. In the first of our new 'Green business' series, founder Mark Constantine discusses gourmet consumerism, dream factories and why his ethical creation is a work in progress more...
Bush-meat demand fuelling secretive trade in Guinea-Bissau's primates
Dearbhla Crosse
29th September 2010
Logging, mining and agriculture are opening up Guinea-Bissau's once intact forests to the ravages of the bush-meat trade, an Ecologist investigation finds more...
Special report: Horrific bush-meat trade stalks Guinea-Bissau
Dawn Starin
29th September 2010
In a remarkable and harrowing dispatch from Guinea-Bissau, Dawn Starin reports how logging, mining and agriculture are opening up the country's once intact forests to the ravages of the growing bush-meat trade, threatening some of the country's most enigmatic monkey species more...
Starting a business has never been so liberating...
Tom Hodgkinson
25 August 2010
Find the hidden entrepreneur in you to free yourself from slavery to corporate and state authority, says Tom Hodgkinson more...
Forget the 'big society'; we just need a co-operative one
Molly Scott Cato
16th August, 2010
Claims that we need a 'big society' to fix our 'broken' one are just Victorian throwbacks - we have the business tools to survive; we just need a co-operative attitude to go with them more...
UK businesses call for compulsory carbon reporting
Ecologist
28th July, 2010
BT, Aviva and Microsoft among host of big corporations urging the Government to make reporting on carbon emissions a legal requirement by the end of 2010 more...
Greening my office: I got them to switch the heating off!
Sylvia Sunshine
9th July, 2010
Sylvia scores her first eco success - persuading her sceptical boss that heating an unoccupied portion of the office is a terrible waste of resources more...
Stop the big pubcos taxing our local pubs out of existence
Dan Box
7th June, 2010
Pubs are closing everywhere, and in many cases there's a simple reason behind the shuttering of the local... more...
Greening the Hay Festival
Laura Sevier
20th May, 2010
Next week, the Hay Festival in Wales kicks off with its usual big name line-up of writers. Andy Fryers, organiser of the festival's special 'Greenprint' initiative, talks about expanding green events and shrinking footprints more...
Lab grown meat: a low-fat, low-carbon, cruelty-free future?
Matilda Lee
6th April, 2010
The technology isn't fully developed yet, but when meat really can be grown in a lab it's going to turn all our arguments about carnivorous diets on their heads... more...
I've picked 5 good firms; 5 bad. Who will do best?
Dan Box
2nd April, 2010
Dan launches a highly unscientific experiment to track the financial fortunes of five green companies, and five less-than-green... more...
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Label EU pork: 'offspring of a sow in a crate'
Tracy Worcester
26th January, 2010
Simply labelling pig meat products with their country of origin won't change consumer behaviour. Telling people how it was produced just might more...
Walls sausages reluctant to come clean on origin of pork
Ecologist
26th January, 2010
Owner of Walls, Mattessons and Richmond sausage brands says telling public where meat comes from would 'add cost' and 'jeopardise our brand positioning' more...
GRAPHIC: What business wants in Copenhagen
Ecologist
10th December, 2009
Copenhagen is awash with lobbyists of all creeds and colours, but those representing big business interests have more power than most. Here are their demands... more...
10 approaches to tackling over-consumption
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
'There is enough for everyone’s need, but not for everyone’s greed,’ said Gandhi – but how much does each of us need? more...
CASE STUDY: fighting food multinationals in South America
Polly Cook
19th June, 2009
In the Brazilian town of Santarem, one brave priest is the only thing standing between multi-national grain trader Cargill and the rest of the Amazon more...
CASE STUDY: starting a local biofuel bus service
Jan Goodey
1st October, 2008
Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's transport revolution is powering up. Jan Goodey meets Tom Druitt, the driving force behind the Big Lemon Bus more...
Wangari Maathai: fighting for Kenya's environment
Nicola Graydon
1st March, 2005
Wangari Maathai’s Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global security agenda more...
The 300-350 Show: "Our climate is not your business!"
Phil England
5th November, 2009
Climate Radio turns its focus on the actions of big business and asks why we need to stop them stopping climate action more...
How can we tell which companies are really green?
David Ord
6th October, 2009
Green claims are everywhere: surely there must be some simple way of measuring exactly what impact a company is having on the climate? more...
EU must act against Cargill says watchdog
Ecologist
24th September, 2009
US company has too much influence over market and is partly to blame for recent high food prices more...
Botswana admits bushmen were evicted for diamond mine
Ecologist
19th August, 2009
Official admits government cut off water supply to force Bushmen out of the Central Kalahri Game Reserve more...
Have NGOs sold out?
Jonathon Porritt
13th July 2009
Accusations that NGOs have got far too cosy with big business have been around for years. But where does the blame really lie? more...
Sustainability 'undone' by Treasury and BIS, says Porritt
Ecologist
6th July, 2009
The outgoing chief of the Government's independent sustainability watchdog, Jonathon Porritt, has criticised the Treasury and Department for Business for a failure to advance the sustainable development agenda more...Members
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